Artechlaw Copenhagen Workshop 2023
The Artechlaw Copenhagen Workshop 2023 was the third in our series of workshops investigating intersections of art, technology and copyright law. The Copenhagen Workshop took place at Copenhagen Business School and focused on intersections of art, technology and copyright law in the contexts of social and economic change. Participants from law, social science, humanities, business, technology and visual art explored pasts and futures of artistically seizing opportunities and countering threats in a regulatory landscape attempting to keep up with rapidly changing technologies.
As in the previous Artechlaw workshop we did not follow a traditional conference format. Rather, all accepted works were paired with a commentator from a different discipline (than the author of the contribution), who presented their commentary on the piece, while the original contributor(s) were invited to respond and engage in a conversation. Moreover, the majority of the time in the sessions was allocated to general discussion enabling all workshop attendees to contribute comments and thoughts.
Format
Our workshop format allocated time as follows:
- Commentator presenting for 15 mins max
- Author(s) responding for 10 mins max
- General discussion 30 mins
Preparation
Attendees were asked to prepare by going through each of the submissions before joining the workshop. Commentators were asked to provide general reflections and comments on their assigned piece along with providing feedback directed at improving the work for publication/dissemination. Authors/creators were notified that they would not be presenting their work themselves but would be expected to respond to notes by the commentator.
Day one
The first day of the Copenhagen workshop was on Thursday 14 September 2023. Participants arrived in the afternoon and the two-hour opening session engaged with the pasts of art, technology and law focusing on Hogarth and doing business in originals and copies in the 18th century till today, drawing lines between old and new technologies, from engravings to digital:
Day one
Welcome and Roundtable ‘The Lure of Copying vs Copyright Law’ with Zoom Rockman, Ganiyu Jimoh (Jimga), Fiona Macmillan, Cristina S. Martinez, Bénedicte Miyamoto and Cynthia Roman
Day two
The second day of the workshop, Friday 15 September 2023, we investigated contemporary developments and interrelatedness of technology, law and art in the contexts of architecture, fashion, contracts, education and more:
Day two
Panel: ‘AI in Image Generation’ Leo Impett, Fabian Offert and Piera R
Paper presentations session # 1:
Aude Jomini and Eben King: ‘City Pile’ – Abstract and video
Commentator: Shane Burke
Heidi Harkonen ‘Tailoring Moral Rights for the Fashion Sector’
Commentator: Véronique Pouillard
Paper presentations session #2:
Marta Iljadica ‘Architectural Copyright in the Early Twentieth Century: Building a Work of Art’
Commentator: Cristina S Martinez
Video: Claudy Op den Kamp ‘Opening PANDORA’S BOX – Originals and Copies in the context of film restoration’
Commentator: Bénédicte Miyamoto
Paper presentations session #3:
Isabella Alexander & Joy Twemlow: ‘Making a Meme out of Copyright’
Commentator: Priya Kohli
Maria Jose Schmidt-Kessen, Stina Teilmann-Lock, Andrea Wallace: ‘Minecraft as a Teaching Tool: Experiences from a Comparative Intellectual Property Class’
Commentator: Amanda Levendowski
Paper presentations session # 4:
Vishv Priya Kohli ‘Legal design of contracts’
Commentator: Isabella Alexander
Jimga ‘Zine:The Enigma Garden’ Abstract and Zine
Commentator: Jens Schovsbo
Day three
On day three of the Artechlaw workshop participants explored possible futures of art, technology and law and transformative potentials for society and business.
Day 3
Amanda Levendowski: ‘Generating a Full SLATE of AI Analyses’
Panel discussion with Sebastian Schwemer and Andrea Wallace. Moderator: Andrej Savin
A major outcome of the Copenhagen workshop were reflections on how intersections of art, law and technology – with the recent availability and ubiquity of genAI tools – had been a moving target even during the relatively short time of the Artechlaw project (2020-2025) and how, during this period, the there had been a shifting of the pasts and futures of our topic.